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Sir John Sulston: profit made at the expense of patients.
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has hit out at what he terms the "moral corruption" of the medical industry.
Britain's Sir John Sulston says that profits are taking precedence over the needs of patients, particularly in the developing world.
He was speaking at the launch of a new research institute into science, ethics and innovation.
Sir John shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for medicine for his work on the genetics controlling cell division.
He is well known for his commitment to public medicine and his opposition to the privatisation of scientific information.
Eight years ago he led the fight to keep the data being derived from the Human Genome Project open and free to any scientist who wanted to use it.
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